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This wikiHow teaches you how to look for and find villages in Minecraft Pocket Edition for iPhone and Android. You can create a new world that spawns you next to a village, or you can try to locate a village based on geography. Keep in mind that locating a village in a standard world will take lots of time and patience.

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    Open Minecraft PE. Tap the Minecraft app icon, which resembles the Minecraft logo.

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    Tap Play . It's near the top of the screen.

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    Tap Create New . This option is at the top of the page.

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    Tap Create New World . It's near the top of the page.

    • Make sure that you're on the "New World" tab and not the "New Realm" tab when you do this.

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    Scroll down and tap ► . It's to the right of the "Seed" text field.

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    Select a village seed. Tap one of the "Village" templates. If the seed's name doesn't have Village in the title, don't select it.

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    Tap Create . This button is on the left side of the screen. Doing so will create a new world using the village template that you selected.

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    Navigate to the village. Once the world loads, spin around and try to see the village. If you see it, head over to it; if not, move around a bit to try to readjust your line of sight.

    • If you can't see the village from where you stand, try finding a higher viewpoint. You can also increase the render distance to allow you to see further into the distance.
    • You can also just delete this world and create a new one with the same seed template to try again if you can't find the world within a few minutes.

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    Make sure Minecraft is up-to-date. Villages don't spawn in pre-v0.9.0 versions of Minecraft, so update your iPhone's or Android's Minecraft version if it's out-of-date before continuing.

    • As of October 2017, Minecraft PE v1.2.2 is the latest version.

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    Know where to look. Villages spawn under specific circumstances:[1]

    • Biomes - Villages spawn in Plains (flat, green grass), Savannah (brown grass), Taiga (hilly with green grass), Desert (sand), and Ice Plains (flat, icy). You won't find them in other biomes at all.
    • Terrain - Villages will usually spawn in dry, flat areas. This means that if you're looking for them in the Taiga biome, you'll need to find a flat section.
    • Appearance - Villages resemble clusters of buildings surrounded by wood-enclosed farms and populated by non-aggressive people.

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    Load your game. Select the world in which you want to search for a village.

    • If your game is in creative mode, you'll be able to cover ground much more quickly than if it is in survival mode.

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    Increase the render distance. This will increase the distance at which you can see objects in-game. Once your game opens, do the following:

    • Tap the pause button at the top of the screen.
    • Tap Settings
    • Scroll down on the left side of the screen and tap Video
    • Scroll down to the "Render Distance" slider on the right side of the screen.
    • Slide the "Render Distance" switch all the way to the right.

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    Prepare for a long journey. It can take hours to find a village, so stock up on basic tools, a bed, food, and weapons before you set out.

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    Tame a mount for transportation. If you happen to have a saddle, you can use it to get a mount and speed up your exploration. Find a horse and interact with it several times with an empty hand until it doesn't throw you off, then sneak up to the tamed horse and select it with the saddle to make it controllable while you ride it.[2]

    • A pig can also be saddled, but requires a steady supply of "carrot on a stick" items to be controlled. You can create these items by combining a carrot with a fishing pole.

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    Find a viewpoint. Navigate to the tallest hill that you can find in a biome in which villages spawn. This will allow you to take in the surrounding areas.

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    Look for torches at night. You'll be able to see fire much more clearly at night than during the day. While fire at night may be lava, there's a good chance that the fire is coming from torches—and torches typically mean villages.

    • Be extremely careful while doing this if you're playing survival mode on anything other than "peaceful" difficulty. It's best not to investigate the torches until the following day due to mobs.

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  • Question

    How can I prevent zombies from invading a village without being on peaceful or using Iron Golems?

    Community Answer

    Create large walls around the village. Make them tall, out of something like cobblestone, and they can protect the village from any mob!

  • Question

    How can I get other players into my world?

    Community Answer

    If you are playing the Minecraft Pocket Edition, players need to be on the same wi-fi. After that, load your world and wait for the other players to join.

  • Question

    What does a village look like on a map in Minecraft PE?

    Community Answer

    It's mostly brown or gray from the stone buildings with a little crop color.

  • Question

    How do I check if my game is updated to 0.9.0?

    Community Answer

    Go to the menu; in the bottom-right corner, you can see the version number.

  • Question

    How can I find a desert village?

    Community Answer

    Search in sand biomes to find one. Be careful not to fall into holes as sand might fall and cover the entrance, and you will be attacked by mobs.

  • Question

    How rare are villages in Minecraft PE?

    Community Answer

    Not VERY rare but difficult to find, I'd say maybe 37 in 50 random worlds have a village in them, but then again, Minecraft PE keeps updating and the numbers change so it really depends.

  • Question

    How do I know if a village has traps?

    Community Answer

    No villages naturally spawn with traps in Minecraft, unless you are on a multiplayer server and another player put some in.

  • Question

    Why can't I find a village in a flat world in Minecraft PE v1,2,7?

    Cassie Gillett

    Cassie Gillett

    Community Answer

    You can only find villages on old or infinite worlds. You'd have to build one yourself on a flat world.

  • Question

    Is there any way I could get mods in this edition? If so, what are the best?

    Community Answer

    You can install various mods, but to apply them, you will need a launcher such as BlockLauncher or MCPE Master.

  • Question

    How do I find a village on a flat world in Minecraft PE?

    Community Answer

    If you are in creative mode, fly around until you spot one. In survival, keep searching until you eventually find one.

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  • If you happen to see a wide pillar of gravel while you are underground, it may be worth digging through to find out if it is a village well.

  • Once you arrive at a village, you can trade with the locals.

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  • Manually searching for a village can take several hours to pay off. Unless you have a good reason to do this in your current world, consider just creating a new one with a village seed.

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    "Getting to know what areas villages are normally in helped me a lot."

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